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Portugal

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July 11th 2006
Pri has her roots here, so naturally we had to visit 😊 Amongst other things we walked around in the very non-tourist streets of Matoshinos which was a nice change. Got a copy of the birth-certificate of her grandmother, but it turned out to be more difficult to find an address where she had lived before emigrating to Brasil. We also took a boat-trip on the Porto river and under the six bri ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more